Motorcyclists warned over bus lane use

Council bosses are warning motorcyclists to check road signs carefully before driving in bus lanes, following the start of a six month trial which allows motorcycles, mopeds and scooters to use bus lanes on London’s ‘Red Route’ network.

However the change doesn’t apply to bus lanes on roads controlled by the most London’s boroughs and on these roads it remains an offence for motorcyclists to stray into bus lanes.

Wandsworth council’s transport spokesman Cllr Guy Senior warned that TfL’s trial means “that there are now effectively two sets of rules for motorcyclists in bus lanes.”

Cllr Senior commented: “it is vitally important that motorcyclists remain observant and check the signs before entering a bus lane. If they do not do this and use a bus lane that is not on a TfL road, then it’s a distinct possibility that they will be sent a penalty charge notice in the post. If they don’t want to be fined, then it’s very important that they check the road signs first.”

I’ve just got three £ 120 fines in the post…sorry, £ 60 fines if I pay up like a good boy and don’t cause any trouble…because I thought the 6 month trial applied to all bus lanes. Clearly I should either keep myself better informed or live in a city that isn’t designed to wring every last drop out of you! What a joke…

You must both appeal because this is wrong.
However it would not surprise me that a well trumpeted idea of Boris’s turned out to be ‘tripe and nonsense’ – which seem to be his favourite phrases at the moment.

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